Abstract published In: Sign Language & Linguistics
Vol. 28:1 (2025) ► pp.140–148
Dissertation abstract
Attitudes to ASL-English language contact among deaf and hard-of-hearing users of ASL in the United States
Published online: 24 January 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00091.bis
https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.00091.bis
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Methodology: Centring language contact and participant subjectivities in research design
- 3.Characterising language contact experiences of deaf and hard‑of‑hearing signers of ASL
- 4.Exploring how perceiver background influences evaluation of ASL
- 5.Measuring English-ASL mixing and its correlation with evaluation
- 6.Conclusion
- Notes
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